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real piece of evidence against Libya – had been brought over from the UK to the FBI lab, where he had personally identified it as coming from the circuit board of a Mebo MST-13 timer, only 20 of which had been made and all were supplied to Libya. Marquise agrees that "without the timer fragment we would have been unable to develop additional evidence against Libya." He says that of all the evidence retrieved from the crash scene, only one piece – the timer fragment – was brought to America. Lord Fraser disagrees saying he would have had to authorise the handing over to the FBI of this crucial piece of evidence, and he had not done so.
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In another interview towards the end of the film, Marquise changes his mind and is prompted by DCS Henderson to say that the "fragment never came to the US." Marquise volunteers that he actually saw the timer fragment (PT-35) in London, but Henderson corrects him saying Marquise had seen it where all
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timer that triggered the bomb – had not been tested for explosives residue for 'budgetary reasons'. Whitehurst does not accept that cost could be the reason since it would have taken him just a morning's work to have tested the timer fragment. Thurman confirms that the fragment – the only
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in 1986 and in the possession of the US in 1990. He believed them to be identical. The FBI asked the Scottish police to bring the fragment (PT-35) to the US in about June 1990 to be compared with the photograph of the Senegal timer and the circuit board of the Togo timer. Feraday did in fact bring
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The FBI's Richard Marquise responded to this summary of the film 'Lockerbie Revisited' as follows: "I would like to clarify one point which so many people seem to have made important. A photograph of PT-35 was identified by Tom Thurman as similar to a photograph of a timer circuit board which had
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the fragment to the US--it was never out of his possession and was brought back to the UK at the conclusion of his analysis with Tom Thurman in the FBI lab. This is what I said on my initial interview and later clarified my remarks made at
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in December 2008 stating I believed that Feraday did in fact bring the fragment to the US but it was never out of his possession. I did not see the fragment on that trip. I later saw the fragment (PT-35) in person at
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when I traveled there with Mr. Henderson in the winter of 1991. I have many more things I would like to say but do not want to use this site to post my "rants" each time I disagree with what someone posts."
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goes free. That's how fucking important it is. This could bring the Scottish judicial system and the FBI into fucking complete disrepute, and frankly they would not want this linen to be washed in public!"
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the other evidence was kept in the UK. Before taking his leave, Henderson emphasises to the camera that there are "no hidden holes to find because the culprit is in custody – take my word for it!"
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in 1988 in the possession of two Libyan intelligence officers. He also compared that photograph with the circuit board of a similar MEBO timer found in
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Robert Baer says that geopolitics and inter-agency rivalry prevented the CIA passing intelligence-derived evidence to the FBI following the bombing of
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as the Best Television Current Affairs Programme of the Year 2009. The prize was donated by the Directorate of Communication of the
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officer Richard Marquise, Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Henderson of the Scottish police, ex-FBI laboratory official
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knew that this was all going to be heard in public, they may well drop their opposition to the appeal and
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Ian Ferguson is given the last word. He is heard to say: "This could bring an end to the appeal. If the
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On the VPRO website there are links to June 2005 interviews by Gideon Levy featuring
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award in the 'Investigative & Current Affairs' category at the 2010
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on the Tegenlicht website (in Dutch, with English language interviews)
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in Edinburgh on 28 April 2009. The film's director,
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Backlight

Gideon Levy
Dutch
VPRO
documentary television series
Backlight
Dutch
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Pan Am Flight 103
High Court of Justiciary
Gideon Levy
FBI
Thomas Thurman
Hans Köchler
CIA
Robert Baer
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
Prix Europa
Council of Europe
Banff World Television Festival
Pan Am Flight 103
Tony Gauci
Mebo
Crown
Megrahi
Senegal
Togo
Arlington
Mr Levy

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